Just your average Friday Night fun... making boob emojis with @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social

It's a lovely article @meghanazad.bsky.social 😊 Publishing data did lead to positive change in Manitoba! Here's the cited article in #IntBreastfeedJ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research + Advocacy teaming up for real impact! Next, we are advocating for: - Free breast pump loan program - Milk Mentors program expansion - Insurance coverage for lactation care and pumps - Lactation spaces on campus ... and we need help in many forms. DM me if you'd like to contribute!

New research integrates longitudinal multiomic data to show 🤱🏾 how mom shape baby's microbiome 👶🏾 how baby shapes mom's milk ⏩It's a 2-way street!⏪ Proud to be a coauthor on this exciting work, led by @trenton.phd & his amazing student @lishideng.bsky.social - w/ milk data from our #IMiC consortium

We're inviting teachers in grades 1-3 to test drive lessons about baby mammals and their mothers’ milk! These lessons use stories and simple activities to help students learn about growth, nutrition, and introduce the concepts of taxonomy and adaptation. #EduSky #iTeachBio #EduSci #EvoEd 🧪 🛟

A great conversation - thank you for the opportunity! #breastfeeding #humanmilk #breastmilk #microbiome 🧪 🤱🏻

Media bias against women doesn’t just hurt female scientists’ careers; it also biases the information that gets the the public. For example, my field, lactation science, is likely a thing you just now learned exists. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🛟 🩺 #BlueSci #MedSky #WomenInSci #SciMoms

What a Trailblazer, indeed. I had the honour of meeting Ruth Lawrence during a visit to the @urochester.bsky.social in 2019. We met 🌟in her office🌟. She was 95! RIP Ruth. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/r...

Intriguing New Research on Milk Stem Cells: In mice, stem cells from maternal milk can migrate to pups’ brains, where they appear to integrate and differentiate after an ischemic (stroke-like) injury. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

In love with my first commissioned art piece! 😍🦠🧪 I've had the breast for a while. My new office configuration was begging for a 'companion' so I checked out the artist's other pieces - all gorgeous, but none quite right (though if you study the brain, heart, gut, spine... you are in luck!) ...

Breastmilk components associated with a child’s early neurodevelopment: new CHILD research in @FrontNutrition from Sarah Turner & @meghanazad.bsky.social @umanitoba @CHRIManitoba #NationalBreastfeedingWeek childstudy.ca/breastmilk-a...

🚨 New #THRiVElab paper!🚨 (Just in time for #NationalBreastfeedingWeek 🍁🤱🏽 ) Led by PhD student Sarah Turner, we explored how human milk fatty acids & oligosaccharides relate to infant neurodevelopment in the @childcohortstudy.bsky.social. 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...

It's #NationalBreastfeedingWeek! Our MILC team is hosting info booths at public libraries this week in Winnipeg to celebrate. More about MILC: www.milcresearch.com

A Genetic Atlas of the Mammary Gland 🧬🤱🐭 New research from @geula.bsky.social & team shows shifts in gene activity across pregnancy → lactation → weaning. This new 'atlas' provides new avenues for studying lactation disorders and breast cancer. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

We are reopening this search - apply now! viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

If you missed it live - the #GloMiNe2025 talk recordings are now available! Kudos to the organizers for the fancy editing (cited papers and website links are embedded for easy clicking🪄) Here's mine: cassyni.com/events/TkwUV...

Today at #MILCclub we are learning from Dr. Daniel Robinson about his team's new sensor technology for measuring milk volume during #breastfeeding 🧪🤱🏾 Check out their research here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AGBTPH25 MA: up to 20% of baby deaths caused by suboptimal breastfeeding. lower risk of SIDS, respiratory infections, other issues. Human milk is a superfood, baby's first vaccine. Milk changes based on signals from baby

WOW. Learning about the #Nutrition for Precision Health initiative at #AGBTPH25. This massive study involves 8000 people tracked w/ wearables, CGM, blood & stool multi-omics, controlled feeding trials, and novel methods (apps & eye cameras!) for tracking diet. 🤯 nutritionforprecisionhealth.org

Taking the stage at #AGBTPH25 this morning to propose Human Milk as Precision Health 🤱🏻🧪💫 (Following a great Women's Networking breakfast!)

All set for tomorrow! Happy to be joining Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, David A. Mills, Thomas Sharpton & others for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum. Registration is 🌟free🌟 for everyone, everywhere - join us!

Excited to nerd out about #genomics at my first @agbt.bsky.social meeting! 🧬🧪 My first love in science (long before breastmilk!) was genetics. In Grade 11, I borrowed the Cell Biology textbook over summer. In Grade 12, I did my final English project (a magazine on any topic) on DNA. #AGBTPH2025

DYK that mothers' milk has a circadian rhythm, providing dynamic signals to baby? 🤱🏻🕧🕐 New study shows: - Cortisol peaks in early am ('wake up!' 😀) - Melatonin peaks late at night ('sleepy time' 😴) Moms who pump may want to label & feed am/pm milk separately. www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...

New study: breastfeeding by mothers with COVID did *NOT* transmit infection to their newborns, whether feeding at the breast or providing pumped milk. bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Big congrats to #THRiVElab MSc student, Karinne Cardoso Muniz for receiving a studentship from @researchmb.bsky.social & @chrimanitoba.bsky.social! 👏🏻 Karinne is studying immune proteins in human colostrum together with our partners at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. Stay tuned for results!

Proud of our new #THRiVElab postdoc Anne Manson for winning a fellowship from @researchmb.bsky.social & @chrimanitoba.bsky.social 👏🏻 Stay tuned for exciting new research on a powerful but rarely studied component of human milk: oxylipins.

A good reminder that #breastfeeding is good for mothers' health, too! spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

Wrapping up an unforgettable family vacation in #Iceland 🔥🧊⛰️ Met long-lost relatives, stumbled upon the biggest cultural festival of the year, explored countless waterfalls & volcanoes, and even experienced a hurricane! An incredible place for #NatureSelfies!

New study involving over 300,000 children shows #breastfeeding could help prevent early puberty. Reminds me of the "lactocrine programming" hypothesis that I first learned about from pig research: maternal milk impacts reproductive health over the lifespan. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Join us on Sept 11!

New study links longer duration of #breastfeeding in infancy with lower central adiposity & systemic inflammation in adulthood "Low uptake of breastfeeding may shape future epidemics of obesity and inflammation" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

New research on low milk supply: 🤔 1 in 4 moms incorrectly *perceived* supply as normal (but it was low) or low (but it was normal) 🤱🏻 29% truly had low supply 🤷🏻‍♀️ Over half of cases had no clear explanation #breastfeeding 🧪 internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Identifying 'toxins' in breastmilk is important - but we must also consider the alternative. Many studies don't. Here, titanium dioxide was detected in human milk (not good!) ...but was also detected, at even higher levels, in infant formula. Context matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new drug for boosting milk supply? Early days - keeping an eye on this! accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Mammary Glands in a Dish - what can they teach us? Excited to meet Dr. Gat Rauner today at #MILCclub! I found her through this post on @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/mammary-glan...

New research from the Shanghai Birth Cohort, involving nearly 900 children, shows duration of #breastfeeding is associated with cardiac structure and function at 4 years. 💗🤱🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research on medication use during #breastfeeding: are moms getting the right advice? www.bath.ac.uk/announcement... And a video from the lead author Rachel Pilgrim who will be dedicating her PhD to this important topic 👏🏻 youtu.be/N_DtR7n8MxI

A nice summary of recent #breastmilk research from the @childcohortstudy.bsky.social - led by PhD student Kate Donald. 🧪 www.the-scientist.com/breastmilk-a...

A #NatureSelfie from my happy place 🏔️😊

Should I eat this egg? 🤔

Exciting new research from @salkinstitute.bsky.social: immune cells migrate from gut to breast during pregnancy and lactation - and microbes play a key role! 🤱🏽🤰🏻🦠🧪 www.salk.edu/news-release...

Not All On Mom: Breastfeeding requires support from many levels Great article & graphic from @unicef.org: www.unicef.org/rosa/blog/br... #WorldBreastfeedingWeek #WBW2025

Could eating peanuts during breastfeeding help prevent peanut allergies? We'll find out in 2029! Our observations from the @childcohortstudy.bsky.social (see next post) suggest this might be a good strategy - but a trial is needed to confirm. New NIH-funded research: www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Today marks the last day of #WorldBreastfeedingWeek. ICYMI - our Reddit AMA on all things breastfeeding and breast milk 👇👇

Reflection Week off to a good start. 🏔🧘‍♀️🌤 #NatureSelfie

In recognition of World Breastfeeding Week, CHRIM scientist Dr. Meghan Azad recently spoke with the @jhu.edu Public Health On Call podcast to share insight into her fascinating research on breastfeeding. Listen here: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/927-world...

"Why are you guys necessary and why does breastfeeding need support?" - one of many Q's from our Reddit AMA. Others: ❓ Can grandmothers relactate? ❓ How does the breast know to customize the milk? ❓ How important is the "breast crawl"? Our A's to these & many more: www.reddit.com/r/askscience...

Thanks @publichealthpod.bsky.social for having me on this week to talk about my favourite topics! We covered... - What's so interesting about #breastmilk? - Can this research benefit adults too? - What policy changes are needed to support breastfeeding? - And more! #WBW2025 🧪🤱🏼 Link below 👇🏼👇🏼

The lactation science Ask Me Anything is live and open for questions! We will begin answering at noon Eastern. www.reddit.com/r/askscience... #BlueSci #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 #OneHealth #PedSky 🧪🛟

Happy #WorldBreastfeedingWeek! 🤱🏻🤱🏽🤱🤱🏿 We are celebrating by hosting a live Q&A ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit. 📆 TODAY: 12-5PM EST 📆 Our panel includes experts in: Anthropology Biochemistry Immunology Medicine Nursing & more! Join us at: www.reddit.com/r/askscience... #WBW2025 🧪🛟 #MedSky #MCH